The Wheel of Time · Book 13
The Gathering Storm
- Published
- 27 October 2009
- Pages
- 824
- ISBN-13
- 9780765324160
- Type
- novel
About this book
The Gathering Storm (2009, 824 pages) is the twelfth Wheel of Time novel and the first of three completed by Brandon Sanderson from Robert Jordan's notes and outlines after Jordan's 2007 death. The prose voice shifts noticeably, but the story carries forward the Dragon Reborn's arc toward the Last Battle that Jordan began in 1990.
Its place in The Wheel of Time
The Gathering Storm is book 13 in the The Wheel of Time series. It follows Knife of Dreams. It is followed by Towers of Midnight. See the full The Wheel of Time reading order.
In the Third Age, the Wheel of Time turns and ages come and pass, but the Dragon is bound to be reborn to save the world — or break it. Robert Jordan's fourteen-volume epic follows Rand al'Thor, a sheepherder from the Two Rivers, as his quiet life is shattered by Trollocs, Aes Sedai, and the growing, terrifying suspicion that he is the prophesied Dragon Reborn, doomed to fight the Dark One at the Last Battle even if it means going mad and destroying everyone he loves. Around him, his childhood friends Mat Cauthon…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781250252609
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780765324160